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• There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

  Samuel Beckett

  Heart, Dripping

  "Endgame". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1957.

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• ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

  Samuel Beckett

  Pain, Doors, Long

  The Unnamable (1959)

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• Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dog, Habit, Chains

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

  Samuel Beckett

  Running, Flying, Calm

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What are we doing here, that is the question.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Waiting For Godot, Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Charity, Gestures, Charitable

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Roles, Silence Is

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.

  Samuel Beckett

  Let Me Go, You Let Me Go, Let Me

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

  Samuel Beckett

  Change, Changed, Has Beens

  Samuel Beckett (2013). “Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts”, p.56, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Ideas, Despair

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• It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

  Samuel Beckett

  Rams, Useless, Want

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bears, Grudge, Whisky

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspiring, Failure, Trying

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• How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Simple, Order

  "The Unnamable". Book by Samuel Beckett, 1954.

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• I had little talent for happiness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Littles, Talent

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mistake, Stories, Enough

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.93, Grove Press

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Unhappiness, Grants

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

  Samuel Beckett

  Light, Shining, Shadow

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

  Samuel Beckett

  Window, Knows, Universe

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.276, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Two in distressmake sorrow less.

  Samuel Beckett

  Friendship, Two, Sorrow

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughing, Stories, World

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.

  Samuel Beckett

  Sweet, Qualms About, Littles

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fail, fail again, fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• What is that unforgettable line?

  Samuel Beckett

  Lines, Unforgettable

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.153, Faber & Faber

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• That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Monsters, Damnation

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.461, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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